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Amazon company names are running out of letter combos (i.imgur.com)
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[-] Walop@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 year ago

Half as Interesting explained how it ended up like this. https://piped.video/watch?v=_Bq-6GeRhys

TL;DW; Amazon tried to offload vetting of the third party vendors to the patent and trademark office by requiring their brands are registered, but the vendors ended up generating nonsense brand names that automatically pass because there are too many applications and the names aren't obviously going to conflict with existing ones.

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I stopped shopping at Amazon years ago because of these brands. Shopping on there is too difficult to ensure you're getting a high quality product from a reputable company, there are too many fake companies with cheap knockoffs.

And don't even get me started on the reviews system and how fundamentally broken it is

People you don't need to shop at Amazon for everything. It's better for your wallet if you just give up the site and shop direct from the companies whenever possible

[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That’s incredibly interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[-] NotSpez@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

phteven?

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Gonna start dipping into other alphabets soon - your next pair of yoga pants will come from 𐂀𐂒𐂒π‚₯𐂖𐂩𐂸𐃉𐃅𐃃𐂳.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

They haven't tapped into emojis yet. "πŸ‘πŸ₯΄ Inc."

[-] Thassodar@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

"I'm drunk but you're good, bro" Inc.?

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly it was just random shit. I don't usually use them.

[-] Thassodar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I was just having fun interpreting the emojis lol

[-] steve228uk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

This would still be a better name for Twitter than X

[-] zazaserty@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Its a better name than X Γ† A-12

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